Battery swapping is a technology that could solve one key barrier for EV adoption: consumers’ range anxiety and the long waiting time for battery charging. Wouldn’t you feel more assured on a weekend trip if you knew you could stop at a swap station and replace depleted battery packs with fully charged ones in five minutes? But this isn’t easy to do, as Tesla and Better Place’s past failures. In China, however, battery swapping has been a reality for a couple of years. How did Chinese companies like Nio make it work with 2,300 swapping stations nationwide? What can companies outside China learn from the Chinese experience?

See, Apple? Even cars can do it :)

  • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    5 months ago

    It’s not just that, its what happens if you get a battery from a guy named roger who said he knows what he’s doing and fucked with it?

    Battery swapping sounds great, until you put it into a real world scenario.

    • Gsus4@programming.devOPEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      There are already plenty of shady car mechanics named roger who can swindle you out there…

      • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        5 months ago

        Yea, sure but that doesn’t effect me because I have the chance to know who’s working on my car, you don’t if you habe battery swapping going on.